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STS Resources for Faculty:

Reference:

STS Course Design Tools (from the May 2007 faculty workshop)

General Education Guidelines (the most complete official description of what the STS requirement is intended to be is on pp. 4-5)

How to Propose an STS Course

Why STS? (includes a list of STS objectives)

Sources for Case Studies:

Ethics in Complex Systems
Engineering Ethics
Biomedical Ethics
Various topics, including business and technology ethics
Engineering and Science
Environmental Justice (by students)
Environmental Regulation for Biotechnology

Faculty willing to give guest lectures:

Pam Mack: history of technology, introduction to the field of STS
Tom Oberdan: ethics, philosophy of science
Bea Bailey, Lewis Gibbes (naturalist who grew up at Woodburn plantation)

Videos to borrow (on VHS unless otherwise specified):

Available from the History Department:
Series:
America (Ken Burns)
Century of Warfare (Time Life)
Civilization (Kenneth Clark)
Connections (James Burke)

Individual videos
Day After Trinity (PBS documentary on the Manhattan Project)
The Empire State Building
The Eiffel Tower
The Electric Valley (TVA)
The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River (WPA films)
a two video series on the Hindenburg

Pam Mack has :

2001 a Space Odyssey (DVD)
The Atomic Cafe
Ken Burns, Empire of the Air (on Radio, DVD)
The Fog of War (about Robert MacNamara, on DVD)
The Future of Food (DVD)
The Future that Never Happened (weird predictions of the future, mostly from the 1950s)
The Greatest Good (a history of the Forest Service, on DVD)
The Hospital (full length feature film with some interesting issues illustrated)
The Jetsons: first episodes
The Man in a White Suit(the consequences of inventing fabric that never wears out, 1951, DVD)
Metropolis
Modern Marvels (worlds fairs)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
several documentaries about NASA
Eugene Odum: An Ecologist's Life
A Place in the Land: George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Billings, and Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (DVD)
The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River (1936 and 1937, DVD)
The Right Stuff
The Santee Canal (DVD)
Skyscrapers going up
Smallpox: Deadly Again? (History Channel, DVD)
The Telephone
H. G. Wells, Things to Come (wild early science fiction, starting with a prediction of World War II)
Tail Fins and Drive Ins
Understanding Cyberworld 2002
Uprising of '34 (a PBS documentary about the textile strike of 1934 and the killings in Honea Path)
Where the Green Ants Dream (DVD)

I also have tapes of lectures by Sheila Jasanoff (Comparative Politics of Biotechnology), David Hess, and Tom Dunlap (Why Wilderness is not Natural)

Past events (with links to useful material):

2005-06 Workshops

Fall 2004 Faculty Seminar

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